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# New on KU this month — July 2026
- URL: https://llitd.com/ku-roundup-2026-07/
- Published: 2026-07-17T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-17T14:00:01.000Z
- Description: Last Light in the Dark just landed on KU — Book 1 of a nine-book sci-fi arc. For July, the World of Shadows trilogy gets the binge slot.
- Author: Lincoln Cole
- Tags: #ku-roundup, newsletter

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## New on KU this month

**Last Light in the Dark** (Last Light, Book 1) — out June 15, on Kindle Unlimited from day one. A salvage crew, an anomaly on the dark side of the moon, and a base full of things that are not what they used to be. Marcus, Rylee, Lucas, Chelsea, Nigel — an ensemble in low gravity, finding out what the swarm wants and what transformation actually costs.

It is the slowest opener I have written and the bleakest. The nine-book arc starts here, and Book 2 — *Echoes in the Void* — lands August 15.

[Read on the site →](https://llitd.com/last-light-in-the-dark/)

If you read it the week it dropped and dropped a review, thank you. Reviews on a Book 1 in the first thirty days do more work than any newsletter ever will.

## Backlist binge of the month

**World of Shadows** — three books, complete, all on Kindle Unlimited.

If nine-book sci-fi is not the read you want this month, the three-book exorcism trilogy is the opposite: short, kinetic, and finished. A priest who should not still be a priest, a girl who keeps surviving things she should not, and a Vatican archive that did not want to be opened. The arc lands, the bishop pays for it, and you can read the whole thing without paying for any of it.

[Start with The Everett Exorcism →](https://llitd.com/the-everett-exorcism/)

## From the site this month

A note on shipping a long arc.

Last Light is a nine-book series, and the plan is one book every two months — Book 1 in June, Book 2 in August, the rest landing through 2027\. Nine books in a year is a pace I have never tried and a pace I will not pretend is normal. The honest reason it is doable is that the whole arc was outlined before Book 1 went to my editor. I am not discovering the ending while I write Book 4.

The risk in a long arc is the second book. Book 1 gets people in. Book 2 has to keep them. If Echoes in the Void reads thinner than Last Light in the Dark, the nine-book frame collapses. I have been on it for most of the spring. We will know in August whether I got it right.

— Lincoln

P.S. If you read *Last Light in the Dark* and finished it, reply and tell me which of the five POV characters you walked away most attached to. I am asking because Book 2 has to decide whose shoulders the rest of the arc rides on, and there is exactly one way to find out.

[Browse the catalog on KU](https://llitd.com/books/)